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Avis Chitwood's dress
Date: between 1897 and 1900
This childhood dress of Avis Chitwood is made of brown and rust-colored silk. Chitwood grew up in Mound City, Kansas, and took an early interest in art. As she aged, she took classes in watercolor and china painting, etching, and architectural design. The works she produced were displayed in exhibitions and won awards and honors. One of her etchings was displayed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Chitwood gave this dress to her niece, Janice Gartrell, who donated it to the museum.
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Carry Nation's dress
Date: 1909
Ivory-colored wool dress worn by Carry A. Nation, an internationally recognized leader in the Temperance movement. A resident of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, Nation was known to enter alcohol-serving establishments and attack the bar with a hatchet in order to discourage drinking. Nation was frequently jailed for her acts of vandalism.
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Child's Dress
Date: 1888
Child's dress made of heavy blue fabric. Trimmed with fluted pleat ruffles and plaid shirring. Worn by Bertha Luzette Garman (1878-1974) in about 1888. She was born to George Wilson and Amanda Elizabeth (Zeigler) Garman in Bristol, Indiana. When she was three months old, the family homesteaded the Kill Creek area of Osborne County, where here farther worked as a carpenter. She and her sister attended the "Little Stoney" country school until high school, when they transferred to Osborne High School. In 1905 she married Ulysses George Hibbs.
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High school graduation dress
Date: 1929
Stella Miller of Topeka wore this orange georgette dress to her high school graduation in 1929. It is typical of 1920's fashion, which reflected the decade's relaxed morals. Those women who could afford it opted for a sophisticated style reflecting wealth and romance. Sparkles and spangles called attention to the new short skirts that revealed shapely calves and ankles.
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Hobble dress
Date: between 1910 and 1914
This dress belonged to Marion Kirk King of Garnett, Kansas. King wore the dress on Election Day, November 3, 1914. It was the first presidential election in which Kansas women were eligible to vote. King walked down her sloped street to cast her ballot, but the narrowness of her skirt kept her from making it back up the hill to go home. She had to use a taxi. That didn't dissuade her from voting in future elections, as she believed voting was a privilege of citizenship.
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Woman's dress
Creator: Paul Sachs Originals Company, Inc.
Date: between 1940 and 1959
Woman's short-sleeved, teal-colored rayon dress. The dress has a natural, fitted waist and is calf length. Marie Rizek Bonebrake purchased the dress at a shop in Manhattan, Kansas. She wore it to social events, including the Kansas State Faculty Women's Club and a 60th wedding anniversary party, in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Woman's dress
Date: between 1890 and 1905
Light blue cotton woman's dress, consisting of a bodice and a separate skirt (not pictured). Bodice has square neckline inset with white lace. Vertical tucks to the set-in sleeves, and horizontal tucks across body. Buttons down back.
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